Ok, getting nervous now...

Wow, I see all these concerns about everyone having this surgery. I am completely ok with it, not really worried, except about complications, etc. My biggest fear is doing too much for my family when I get out. Should I be worrying more? I have fought doctors for three years to have this and no offence, but since I have been on it, I have been worrying about things everyone else is worrying about. I don't want to have to worry...I think it will be hard enough as it is...

Kat

Hi Kat:
Yep, it is perfectly NORMAL to worry. It is a major surgery. I had a TAH on July 27,one day before my 45th b-day. (SO I was worried that I was not going to be home for my b-day first). Of course you wonder if complications could arrive but some of my worry went away when I had my pre-op exam and tests. THey showed I was quite healthy enough to undergo the surgery. In fact I have healed so fast my doctor said she is amazed. (Sheer determination). In fact the whole way to the hospital on the morning of the surgery I went by myself. At the hospital the tech, nurses etc. seemed to notice I was by myself and jittery and they were the best at helping to relax me. Even the operating room techs made jokes with me while we waited for my doctor to arrive. I just followed everything my doctor said and kept telling myself to relax. I had heard that being stressed would bother the healing process., so now here I am at 5th week post-op and really feeling more like myself, except for the darn swelly belly.

Good Luck.

I was very much looking forward to my hyster, and my main worry (no, terror) was that it would somehow be cancelled. Luckily for my sanity, it was actually moved ahead a couple of hours - I was supposed to be in at 10:30 am, and was awake at 6 am (yes, I actually slept the night before), and climbing the walls at 8 am. The hospital called at 8:05 am and said they had a cancellation, and could I come in early...I was out my front door in five minutes flat

But yes, I worried about it. I worried about not coming out of the anesthesia, and about the post-op period, and how would I feel, etc. Everything went wonderfully, and apart from some serious belly pain in the Recovery Room, which Dilaudid took care of nicely, I felt better than I had in a year.

I was lucky, my gyne didn't argue with me when I told him to take out the uterus and be done with it. I gather that is not always the case. Best thing that ever happened to me, wish I'd had it done 20 years ago!

Good luck, and don't worry too much; it is all well worth it.

blessings,

Orin